http://www.intellijel.com/
I met with Danjel van Tijn, the mastermind behind Intellijel Designs, for a collaboration. Danjel jammed on his modular synth rack while I sampled and manipulated on the fly to compose some pretty abstract tunes. 
A tiny bit of editing and we've got here 4 of those jams mixed together.
Your input is appreciated!

Tomas Jirku + Intellijel = 4 Modular Jams

A healthy sampling of my productions from 2014.

1. Deepchild - Dirt Thief (Tomas Jirku Remix) [Thoughtless, Berlin]
2. Tomas Jirku - Solaris 1972 [Thoughtless, Berlin]
3. Tomas Jirku - R.U.R. (Jirku Remix) [Concrete, Rome]
4. Tomas Jirku - Solaris 2002 [Thoughtless, Berlin]
5. Tomas Jirku - Power Block (with The Automatic Message) [Innerflight, Seattle]
6. Jak & Seqwenzer - Super Oxide (Tomas Jirku Remix) [Subspec, Vancouver]
7. Tomas Jirku - Freaktown [FASRAT, Łobez]
8. Noah Pred - Devil's Quadrant (Tomas Jirku Instrumental Remix) [Thoughtless, Berlin]
9. Tomas Jirku - Too Dark [Subspec, Vancouver]
10. Tomas Jirku - Self-Replicating Machine Elves [unreleased]
11. Tomas Jirku - Alquist [Concrete, Rome]
12. Tomas Jirku - Vivisection [Subspec, Vancouver]
13. Tomas Jirku - Acid Air (Maiden Voyage) [unreleased]
14. Tomas Jirku - Deep Space House [Innerflight, Seattle]
15. Tomas Jirku & E.S.B. - Space Walk [to be released...]

It Was a Good Year (mix of my productions, 2014)

Futago Technologies was a sometimes collaborative, sometimes solitary title used by Rennie Foster in the early 2000s. Futago Traxx was a vinyl label that released these productions, often an unique fusion of world music and Detroit/Chicago influenced techno and tough house sounds. This release includes a brand new remix by Mutek alumni, Tomas Jirku. The tribalistic, raw, depth of these tracks still endures and remains a powerful reflection of an era in Rennie Foster's continuing musical legacy.

https://www.whatpeopleplay.com/albumdetails/Rennie-Foster-Futago-Traxx-Vol-7/id/106372

https://pro.beatport.com/release/futago-traxx-vol-7/1485379

http://www.junodownload.com/products/rennie-foster-futago-traxx-vol-7/2756337-02/?trackid=1


Rennie Foster - Firedancer(Tomas Jirku Remix)

hear the full album from @kafka-sound and purchase at:
http://concreterecords.bandcamp.com/album/castles

KAFKA - Floors (Tomas Jirku Remix)

From: http://ravensigh.bandcamp.com/album/raven-sigh-halloween-va

I made some new music! Straight-up new, not a remix. (It's been a while.)
And to change it up, it's under the alias Machine Emotion.
Heavy-duty jackin' techno, for the Vancouver-based Raven Sigh label compilation, which also features locals @datataste , @frostbittenkvlt (Matt Tecson), and @bone-skippers alongside international acts.

The U-Bahn samples in my track were recorded by @databoy78 (Sebastian Zangar)

Machine Emotion (Tomas Jirku) - Jack Of All Trades

While I've shifted my creative focus to photography over the last few years, the techno itch persists, so I'm still finding time to toil away in the studio.
Here are the tracks that were released since my particularly productive year of 2014 (see https://soundcloud.com/tomasjirku/it-was-a-good-year-mix-of-my-productions-2014 ), two from then (in case you forgot them), plus an old favourite remix of mine (that few people have probably heard) to close out the mix.

1. Tomas Jirku - soundtrack excerpt from the film "The Interior" [Master Caution Pictures, Toronto, July 2015] 
http://variety.com/2015/film/reviews/the-interior-review-1201637172/

2. Matt Tecson (@matttecson) and Tom Prilesky (@tomprilesky)- "Clairvoyance (Tomas Jirku Remix)" [Body Politic Recordings, Vancouver, September 2016]
https://bodypoliticrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/matt-tecson-and-tom-prilesky

3. Kafka (@kafka-sound) - "Floors (Tomas Jirku Remix)" [Concrete Records, Rome (@concreterecords), June 2015]
https://concreterecords.bandcamp.com/album/castles

4. Machine Emotion (Tomas Jirku) - "Jack of All Trades" [Raven Sigh, Vancouver, November 2015]
https://ravensigh.bandcamp.com/album/raven-sigh-halloween-va

5. Tomas Jirku - "Rebirth" [Father and Son Records and Tapes (@fasrat), Łobez, TBR] 
https://fasrat.bandcamp.com/

6. Tomas Jirku (with Intellijel) - "One Monkey" [Klangscheiben (@klangscheiben), Steinach, July 2015]
https://klangscheiben.bandcamp.com/album/ksrvin001-various-artists-the-fable
https://intellijel.com/

7. Tomas Jirku - " R.U.R. (Jirku Remix)" [Concrete Records (@concreterecords), Rome, October 2014] 
https://concreterecords.bandcamp.com/album/rossums-universal-robots

8. Rennie Foster (@renniefoster) - "Firedancer (Tomas Jirku Remix)" [Futago Traxx, Vancouver, April 2015]
http://classic.beatport.com/release/futago-traxx-vol-7/1485379

9. Mesa Luna (@mesaluna) - "Sputnik (Tomas Jirku Remix)" [unreleased]
https://mesaluna.bandcamp.com/

10. Tomas Jirku - soundtrack excerpt from the film "The Interior" [Master Caution Pictures, Toronto, July 2015] 

11. Tomas Jirku - "The Perpetual Mind" [Subspec Music (@subspec-music), Vancouver, July 2014]
https://www.beatport.com/release/the-perpetual-mind-ep/1337357

12. Tomi Chair (@tomi_chair) - "Midnight Skywalker (Tomas Jirku Remix)" [Nice & Nasty Records (@niceandnasty), Dublin, August 2008] 
https://www.beatport.com/track/midnight-skywalker-tomas-jirku-remix/639337

From this point forward I have a freaky new EP of acid techno completed and waiting to drop, and am currently working on a deep ambient techno album which may be my last...[gasp!]

New Productions Mix - October 2016

Dinner and a show!
An edit of a DJ set performed last summer at one of those special micro-raves we do so well.

1. Recondite - Daemmerlicht
2. Fourtet - Two Thousand and Seventeen
3. Little Dragon - High
4. Fracture x Kid Drama - Tell Me How ft. Lucie La Mode
5. Skee Mask - Session Add
6. Jamie XX - Girl
7. Jadu Heart & Mura Masa - U Never Call Me
8. Goldie, James Davidson & Subjective - Inkolelo
9. Ametsub - From The Mountain
10. Nmesh - KSR Reverse Osmosis Hook
11. Ouri - We Share Our Blood (Biome Remix)
12. D. Tiffany - Spirit Alien
13. Kelly Lee Owens - Oleic
14. Peggy Gou - Han Jan
15. Toro y Moi - Freelance
16. Legowelt - Disco Rout
17. J.C. - Vertigo (Shed's 030 Dubmix)
18. Leon Vynehall - Beau Sovereign
19. Hiro Kone - Less Than Two Seconds
20. Duplex - Molecular (Ovatow Reclock)
21. Atom TM - Supersonor (Hi-Fi Mix)
22. The Egyptian Lover - Future Tech (feat. Juan Atkins)
23. Aloka - Concave
24. Claro Intelecto - Eye Spy
25. Boy Harsher - Fate
26. Future Past - Skrunch
27. Octo Octa - Who Will I Become
28. Danny Daze & Shokh - Aire
29. Echologist & Matrixxman - Dissipate
30. Ouri - Down
31. Blawan - Vented
32. The Exaltics - Tunnel Chase
33. Bruce - Elo
34. Truncate - Missing
35. Overland - Colossal Book of Mathematics
36. Second Storey - Manhattan to Moscow (214 Remix)
37. Second Storey - Ajunlei 8 (The Exaltics Remix)
38. Veralife - Vortices
39. Blind Observatory - Over
40. Gramm - Legends/Nugroove
41. Autechre - Montreal
42. Versalife - Mind Control
43. Odopt - Rag Runner (4$ Captain Morgan Special Offer)
44. Rrose - Waterfall
45. Underworld - Jumbo
46. Yagya - Fjórði Stormur
47. Yagya - Tíundi Stormur
48. Anthony Rother - Observer
49. Ruskin and Broom - Domwen
50. KMFDM - A Drug Against War
51. Caustic Window - The Garden of Linmiri
52. Gus Gus - Purple

Tomas Jirku - Ascension DJ Mix

Tomas started his career in the golden era of minimal and glitch techno and helped to define the genres. 
His live performance at the inaugural Mutek festival in 2000 caught the ear of Force Inc who signed him shortly after, just eking-out Akufen to become the first Canadian on the label. In the era where vinyl still ruled, and digital downloads were just a twinkle in some corporation's eye, Tomas dropped albums on Traum, Klang Elektronik, Revolver, Audio.NL, and more. 
Since then, two decades of producing has seen Jirku manipulate house on Arbutus Records; hip-hop with his laser-gun-rap project The Killaz; dub on his highly regarded "Entropy" album; electro, ambient, and other experiments that defy genres. With experience performing around the globe and having made his mark on innumerable record labels, Tomas has been honing back in on techno, aiming to maximize the brain and body connection that deep techno can provide.
His recent releases on Seattle's Innerflight, Berlin's Thoughtless, Vancouver's Subspec, and Rome's Concrete record labels further prove that the Canadian producer has built a strong repertoire by not doing anything straightforward or ordinary.

Tomas Jirku

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